Winners of the Folk Art Society Awards of Distinction:

• 1989 - Howard Finster
• 1990 - Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr.
• 1991 - Robert Bishop (posthumously)
• 1992 - Seymour Rosen
• 1993 - Minnie Adkins, Dorothy and Sterling Strauser
• 1994 - Felipe and Leroy Archuleta, Warren and Sylvia Lowe
• 1995 - Ned Cartledge, Chuck and Jan Rosenak
• 1996 - Clyde Jones, Gerard Wertkin
• 1997 - Mr. Imagination (Gregory Warmack), Flo and Jules Laffal
• 1998 - Rev. Johnnie Hunter, Lynda Roscoe Hartigan, Marilyn Oshman
• 1999 - Linvel Barker, Lillian Barker (posthumously), Alan Jabbour
• 2000 - Ted Gordon, Bud Goldstone
• 2001 - Georgia Blizzard, Shirley Yancey, Peggy Baggett
• 2002 - Lorenzo Scott, Betty-Carol Sellen, John Smither (posthumously), Stephanie Smither
• 2003 - Ralph N. Lanning, Maude Southwell Wahlman
• 2004 - Artists of Creative Growth, Irene Ward Brydon, John Foster, Lee Kogan
• 2005 - Stanley Szwarc, Russell Bowman
• 2006 - Nicholas Herrera, Peter Cecere
• 2007 - Tim Lewis, Bill Glennon, Mary Bryan Hood, Marvin Finn (posthumously)
• 2008 - Malcah Zeldis, Rebecca Hoffberger
• 2009 - Purvis Young, Ruby Williams, Jack Beverland, Tom and Donna Brumfield, Lynne Browne, Randall Lott, Nancy McCall
• 2010 - Marcia Muth, Sabinita Lopez Ortiz, Susan Mitchell Crawley
• 2011 - Eldridge Bagley, Kathy Johnson Bowles and Ray Kass
• 2012 - William Arnett, Thornton Dial Sr. and Georgine Clarke (posthumously)
• 2013 - William Ferris, Bernard Herman, Roger Manley, Jenny Moore and Vollis Simpson (posthumously)
• 2014 - Michael Hall, Janis Price, John Hoar
• 2015 - Margaret Day Allen, Carol Crown, Cheryl Rivers, Edwin Jeffery Jr., John Williams
• 2016 - Kristin Congdon, Jennifer Hardin, George Lowe, Mary Proctor and John Schloder
• 2017 - Arthur Lopez, Artist; Eluid Levi Martinez, Artist; Jeff Snell, Peggy Gaustad, Tina Cox, James Sellman, William Oppenhimer.
• 2018 -

The Aguilar Family of Ocotlan, Oaxaca.

FASA Plaques Awarded to Folk Art Sites Worthy of Preservation and Protection:

• Howard Finster’s Paradise Garden [2], Summerville, Ga.
• Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village, Simi Valley, Calif.
• Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers, Los Angeles, Calif.
• Leonard Knight’s Salvation Mountain [3], Niland, Calif.
• Miles Carpenter’s Home, Waverly, Va.
• Nek Chand’s Rock Garden [4], Chandigarh, India
• Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, Wilson, N.C [5]
• Clyde Jones' Critter Crossing [6], Bynum, N.C.
• Anderson Johnson Museum, Downing-Gross Cultural Center, Newport News, Va.
• Hartman Rock Garden, Springfield, OH
• Billy Tripp's Mindfield, Brownsville, TN
• Jose' Fuster's Fusterlandia, Jaimanitas, Havana, Cuba